Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. At an unspecified future time: eventually rose to the position of vice president.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In the event; in the final result or issue; in the end.
Wiktionary
- adv. In the end.
- adv. mathematics, of a sequence For some tail.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay
Etymologies
- eventual + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Physical culture" became gym class, or working out, or just plain exercise, and the term eventually died--until the New York Times resurrected it as a pompous catch-all for doing somewhat inane things like riding expensive bicycles in club races and doing yoga with your dog:”
“When he died, the title eventually fell to Francis Bacon.”
“My name eventually got called for the freestyle bracket, and I won that tournament as well.”
“The term eventually came to mean any disposable cash.”
“The term eventually took broader hold and, since roleplaying games evolved out of wargaming, it came to be used in that hobby as well, although with a bit less affection than either the Napoleonic or wargames version of the term.”
“United never recovered from that blow as the title eventually slipped from their grasp with a subsequent draw at”
“More importantly, the word eventually gained currency outside the ivory tower, and professors lost control of its meaning.”
“By 2006, he was embroiled in legal action with Lydia Harris, wife of the company's co-founder, and the label eventually plunged into receivership two years later, being placed up for auction.”
“The Russian suffered a shock defeat at the World Championships last year as she faild to register a height, the title eventually went to Poland's Anna Rogowska.”
“Apparently they were used to smoke and/or dry meat, and the term eventually came to indicate the cooking rather than the apparatus.”
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Time transitional
meanwhile, at length, presently, at last, finally, immediately, thereafter, at that time, subsequently, eventually, currently, in the meantime and 2 more...
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Words
My list of words.
veritable, facetious, nadir, quixotic, apropos, acquiesce, ostensible, insipid, egregious, inveterate, coax, adroit and 409 more...
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Adverbs
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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femmealunettes's Words
serendipitous, psychosocial, animalistic, desperation, augury, dank, pirouette, amnesiac, eternally, stargate, fluffy, pineapple and 65 more...
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MEC3 Lesson 140
flat-chested, topless, stripper, novelty, acoustic, undetectable, lens, eventually, wax museum, as well, knock off, mesmerize and 5 more...
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